What do i do to take care of myself?
Well..
Mums in a care home now but doesn't stop me worrying about her and wondering if I'll get 'it'!
I spend a lot of time reading and researching health matters . I do anything or take anything to avoid what my mum, aunts and grandmother are going through. ( all one branch of the family.)
I've taken up dowsing to help me work out what foods are beneficial to me. That's for non dementia related stuff. It also hasa spin off that we meet with other like minded people at various interesting sites in our area/ around the country etc.
I'm fortunate that I know a lot of people connected to alternate health methods of healing and take their advice to keep myself healthy.
I keep my weight to a reasonable level and have also shifted the focus of my eating away from wheat, dairy and sugar to protein, vegetables and small fruit portions. Sugar in particular is so addictive and destructive . I'm sure we are all getting that message. People say its in everything these days. Not if you cook from scratch like we do ..it isn't.
All of this takes great amounts of denial but I've recently remarried in my 60s and we want to have a long and healthy life together with no one being a carer until its deemed necessary.
I noticed that I have been suffering from TATT( tired all the time) . My doctor has been unable to help me apart from telling me that I have extremely healthy blood. ( I've never been a smoker and only very occasionally have an alcoholic drink).
I couldn't understand it and then I read an article on adrenal gland fatigue and I think I might have found the answer. I was even waking up tired. I found some excellent supplements( not cheap) by a company called Nutri and just two weeks later I'm to feel considerably better. I also take a drop of iodine a day to help the thyroid.
The memory lapses and brain fog( which was unbelievably scary as it felt like my brain was shutting down and it probably was) have just about gone. It also helps that I'm on a sunshine holiday and getting lots of vitamin D. However this TATT came back just days after my last sunshine holiday. Apparently it can be related to emotional trauma and stress and I've had a lot of that in my life and now it's ongoing with mum.
If I can avoid what mum and her sisters and mother went through that will be a great testament to them.
That's what keep me ticking anyway as well as enjoying life with my new husband, our dowsing, jewellery making and spending time with our family and travelling abroad and seeing friends.
I also look into taking good quality supplements. This area is very much where you get
Well..
Mums in a care home now but doesn't stop me worrying about her and wondering if I'll get 'it'!
I spend a lot of time reading and researching health matters . I do anything or take anything to avoid what my mum, aunts and grandmother are going through. ( all one branch of the family.)
I've taken up dowsing to help me work out what foods are beneficial to me. That's for non dementia related stuff. It also hasa spin off that we meet with other like minded people at various interesting sites in our area/ around the country etc.
I'm fortunate that I know a lot of people connected to alternate health methods of healing and take their advice to keep myself healthy.
I keep my weight to a reasonable level and have also shifted the focus of my eating away from wheat, dairy and sugar to protein, vegetables and small fruit portions. Sugar in particular is so addictive and destructive . I'm sure we are all getting that message. People say its in everything these days. Not if you cook from scratch like we do ..it isn't.
All of this takes great amounts of denial but I've recently remarried in my 60s and we want to have a long and healthy life together with no one being a carer until its deemed necessary.
I noticed that I have been suffering from TATT( tired all the time) . My doctor has been unable to help me apart from telling me that I have extremely healthy blood. ( I've never been a smoker and only very occasionally have an alcoholic drink).
I couldn't understand it and then I read an article on adrenal gland fatigue and I think I might have found the answer. I was even waking up tired. I found some excellent supplements( not cheap) by a company called Nutri and just two weeks later I'm to feel considerably better. I also take a drop of iodine a day to help the thyroid.
The memory lapses and brain fog( which was unbelievably scary as it felt like my brain was shutting down and it probably was) have just about gone. It also helps that I'm on a sunshine holiday and getting lots of vitamin D. However this TATT came back just days after my last sunshine holiday. Apparently it can be related to emotional trauma and stress and I've had a lot of that in my life and now it's ongoing with mum.
If I can avoid what mum and her sisters and mother went through that will be a great testament to them.
That's what keep me ticking anyway as well as enjoying life with my new husband, our dowsing, jewellery making and spending time with our family and travelling abroad and seeing friends.
I also look into taking good quality supplements. This area is very much where you get